Monday, December 30th 2024
Frore Systems AirJet Delivers 50% Performance Boost to the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 14"
Frore Systems has demonstrated the massive increase in performance possible with AirJet solid-state active cooling chips in the new Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 14", the thinnest Notebook on the market at just 10.9 mm. The proof-of-concept Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 14", upgraded with AirJet, achieves an incredible 50% increase in sustained CPU & AI performance, showing that now, consumers really can demand it all. Frore Systems will be showcasing the upgraded Samsung Notebook in January at CES 2025.
Frore Systems achieved the 50% performance boost in the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 14", from 12 Watts to 18 Watts, by replacing the two large fans currently used in the Notebook with four AirJet chips. This innovative solution reduces the cooling solution footprint by 45% - the fans consuming 8,800 mm² of space vs the AirJet footprint of just 4,800 mm². Therefore, the extremely compact AirJet solution creates additional space inside the Galaxy Book4 Edge 14", potentially allowing for increasing the battery size from the current 55.9 Wh to 64.8 Wh - a 16% increase - improving video runtime from 20 hours to 23.2 hours.
The AirJet solution achieves this while allowing for a sleeker ID that is dustproof and water-resistant, no longer requiring the fan inlet holes across the back cover of the Galaxy Book4 Edge, all while maintaining its silent operation and super thin form factor of just 10.9 mm - retaining its coveted position as the slimmest notebook available.
Compared to the MacBook Air 15" which is thicker at 11.5 mm, the Galaxy Book4 Edge upgraded with AirJet is not only thinner, but also surpasses the MacBook Air, in both performance and battery life by a staggering 50% and 29% respectively. The Galaxy Book4 Edge 14" with AirJet demonstrating 18 Watts sustained CPU & AI performance and 23.2 hrs video runtime vs the MacBook Air 15" running at an inferior 12 Watts and 18 hrs.
"The Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 14" is an incredible Notebook, already delivering impressive performance and battery life made possible by the amazing Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor", said Dr. Seshu Madhavapeddy, the founder and CEO of Frore Systems. "This all-new Microsoft Co-Pilot+ PC experience is transforming how users create, communicate and play. Just imagine the endless possibilities with additional 50% increase in sustained CPU & AI performance and 16% longer battery life enabled by AirJet. The future of AI is truly being unleashed by AirJet solid-state active cooling."
See the upgraded Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 14" with AirJet in action at CES 2025, together with a range of commercially available products, manufactured by Frore Systems' customers and featuring AirJet solid-state active cooling. Frore Systems will be demonstrating many more proof-of-concept devices upgraded with AirJet chips and, AirJet PAKs, which are plug-and-play solid-state active cooling modules targeting Industrial and Smart Cities Edge AI devices and delivering uncompromising AI performance in industrial grade casings that are ultra compact, light, silent, vibration free, dustproof and water-resistant.
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Frore Systems achieved the 50% performance boost in the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 14", from 12 Watts to 18 Watts, by replacing the two large fans currently used in the Notebook with four AirJet chips. This innovative solution reduces the cooling solution footprint by 45% - the fans consuming 8,800 mm² of space vs the AirJet footprint of just 4,800 mm². Therefore, the extremely compact AirJet solution creates additional space inside the Galaxy Book4 Edge 14", potentially allowing for increasing the battery size from the current 55.9 Wh to 64.8 Wh - a 16% increase - improving video runtime from 20 hours to 23.2 hours.
Compared to the MacBook Air 15" which is thicker at 11.5 mm, the Galaxy Book4 Edge upgraded with AirJet is not only thinner, but also surpasses the MacBook Air, in both performance and battery life by a staggering 50% and 29% respectively. The Galaxy Book4 Edge 14" with AirJet demonstrating 18 Watts sustained CPU & AI performance and 23.2 hrs video runtime vs the MacBook Air 15" running at an inferior 12 Watts and 18 hrs.
"The Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 14" is an incredible Notebook, already delivering impressive performance and battery life made possible by the amazing Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor", said Dr. Seshu Madhavapeddy, the founder and CEO of Frore Systems. "This all-new Microsoft Co-Pilot+ PC experience is transforming how users create, communicate and play. Just imagine the endless possibilities with additional 50% increase in sustained CPU & AI performance and 16% longer battery life enabled by AirJet. The future of AI is truly being unleashed by AirJet solid-state active cooling."
See the upgraded Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 14" with AirJet in action at CES 2025, together with a range of commercially available products, manufactured by Frore Systems' customers and featuring AirJet solid-state active cooling. Frore Systems will be demonstrating many more proof-of-concept devices upgraded with AirJet chips and, AirJet PAKs, which are plug-and-play solid-state active cooling modules targeting Industrial and Smart Cities Edge AI devices and delivering uncompromising AI performance in industrial grade casings that are ultra compact, light, silent, vibration free, dustproof and water-resistant.
20 Comments on Frore Systems AirJet Delivers 50% Performance Boost to the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge 14"
Not that I know what these things costs, but design wise, it's also a lot more effort that goes into a laptop cooler, compared to this.
I would also hazard a guess that there's a lot more testing that goes into the laptop coolers to get the right balance of noise and cooling.
Also, the dimensions listed on Frore's datasheet are 27.5mmx41.5mmx2.65mm for a single unit. Considering the space for ~4 of these and that you still need a heatpipe to move heat from the APU, I doubt it makes much sense currently.
Instead, I think it's more likely that you'll see this in a "gaming" smartphone. Active cooling to prevent thermal throttling could be a strong selling point.
The company also used to have a larger AirJet prototype besides the Mini that was slightly smaller than a standard 2.5" SSD that could do about 20-25w TDP if I'm not misremembering, and they did talk about eventually making those available too. My guess is they chose to move forwards with the Mini series since there's far more things those can be squeezed into, but if they ever bring the larger AirJet to market, it could also be useful in more of the "gaming"-oriented tablets and thinbooks that could use the extra cooling power of 2-3 of those or even a mix of AirJets and Minis.
AirJet also list Zotac MiniPCs that use it, and these aren't hi-end NUCs. ZBOX pico PI430AJ retails somewhere between $450-$600 depending on configuration, so if Zotac can afford it, Valve has no excuse not to use it. That's actually one of the tech tings I'm really excited about. It can give us cool things, like actively cooled tablets, or super-slim laptops that won't throttle any time you look at it the wrong way.
It's still technically a "mechanical" cooling, only instead of fans they use many-many tiny flexible flaps to move the air. They are charged/discharged to flap and pulse the air at ultrasonic frequencies. It consumes a bit more power than a fan (those small 5W modules may need up to 1W of power), but they are wa-a-a-ay thinner and smaller overall. While official datasheets don't really tell us the whole story, there are lots of YT videos that go into detail.
There must be a very serious catch, if they're not straight up lying these should be a nobrainer.
Price seems unlikely considering LTT said they weren't cheap but not overly expensive or something.
They'd give them about 1/4-1/2 of the necessary time to develop a good solution, say "you need to give us x# of sample units so we can confirm it works as needed before we'll pay you, then we'll buy tons of these, promise!", then change the requirements during said short development time several times...causing that short window of time which the vendor was trying to crunch into already to be missed. Then, after some initial quantity of units are delivered ("late"), Voldemort says "well, they're good, but we're too late to get them into this product cycle. We'll try again next time". Then they disappear for a year or so until the next gen is already late and has no time to cram in a component development...again. Meanwhile, you haven't been paid for any of the NRE you expended the first cycle...but you shouldn't care about that because you should just be happy that you are privileged to work with such a prestigious and well known name like "Voldemort" (just don't tell anybody his name).
Well...you can see how most companies wouldn't want to do business with Voldemort anymore after being burned once or twice. I have no idea what their internal developments look like, but they are set up in a way that all but guarantees their vendors get hosed. Sometimes I think they just try to tie up people from working with their competitors. Of course this is definitely just my opinion about a company called Voldemort I've worked with before and not about "Apple". I'm not grumpy about it though...definitely not lol
It's scaled by simple stacking, which is also a con which makes me doubt it'll ever be used in high-power devices.That's a bit of a stretch for a tiny 1W device. Technically your VRM in on GPU/Motherboard/Laptop/TV also generates ultrasound. Though I don't see anyone complaining or ringing a health scare bell.I think you misread the slide. They meant the performance of a cooling system (since that's what this is about), and not the performance of the CPU.
Frore could sell a lot of these.